Barbed-wire fence



(No Model.) I v J. WGRISWOLD. BARBED WIRE-FENCE.

No. 465,689. Patented 1300.22, 1891.

ATTORNEY.

W/T/VESSES: I I m/mvm/ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN WOOL GRISWVOLD, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

BARBED-WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,639, dated December 22, 1891.

7 Application filed June 15, 1891. Serial No. 396,256. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN WOOL GRIswoLD, of Troy, Rensselaer county, New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Barbed-Wire Fences, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of wire fencing which is composed of a series of links, usually barbed; and it consists in the construction of said links and their combination to form a continuous fencing.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved fencing. Fig. 2 is a side view, and Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

Each link, as a 1), consists of a length of wire A, doubled or halved on itself to form at one end of said link the eye B. At the opposite end of said link one end of the wire is bent to form an eye G, with the extremity 0 carried first outside its own standing part and then between the two parts of the link, and then turned outwardly. The other end C of the wire A is bent to form a similar eye G, the extremity D of which is carried first between the two parts of the link, then outside its own standing part, and then turned outwardly in a direction opposite to that of the extremity O. The extremities C and D are sharpened to form barbs. The eyes G and G are placed parallel to one another, and receive the eye or loop B of the adjacent link.

I claim-- 1. A wire-fencin g link composed of a length of wire bent to form a loop or eye at one extremity of the link and having one end bent to form the. eye G, with the extremity '0 carried first outside its own standing part and then between the two parts of the doubled \vire forming the .link and then turned outwardly, and having the otherend bentto form an eye G, with the extremity D carried first betweenv two parts of the doubled wire forming the link and then outside its own standing part and then turned outwardly in direction opposite to that of extremity O, substantially as described.

2. A wire fencing composed of a series of enchained links, each link consisting of a length of wire doubled to form a loop or eye at one extremity of the link and having one end bent to form an eye G, with the extremity 0 carried first outside its own standing part and then between the two parts of the doubled wire forming the link and then turned outwardly, and having the other end bent to form an eye G, with the extremity D carried first between the two parts of the doubled wire forming the link and then outside its own standing part and then turned outwardly in direction opposite to that or" extremity O, the said eyes G G being placed relatively parallel and engaging with the eye B, substantially as described.

JOHN \VOOL GRISWOLD.

Witnesses:

JAMES T. LAW, M. Boson. 

